Wear pad for chair seats and the like



Aug. 17 ,1926.

C. O. CARVER WEAR PAD FOR CHAIR SEATS AND THE LIKE Filed Augut 1a 1925 Patented Aug. 17, 1926.

TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLHTOIE 0. CARVER, F WOLLASTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES R. ENGLISH, OF JAMAICA PLAIN, MASSACHUSETTS.

.WEAIR- PAD FOR-CHAIR SEATS AND THE LTKE.

Application filed August '18, 1925.

This invention relates to wear pads for chair seats and the like and more particularly to pads of this character that can readily be attached'and removed.

One object of the invention is to provide means for attaching the pad to the chair seat, so constructed that securement of the pad on the seat or itsremoval therefrom may be accomplished in a few seconds, without the use of tools or the necessity of turning the chair upside down. A feature of importance is the provision of pad securing means that will permit some movement of the pad on the chair seat, when in use, which i as will be recognized is highly desirable to prevent Wear of the clothing.

A further object is to provide an improved seat pad by employing anovel method for finishing its edge portions, thus making the article attractive to purchasers and giving 1t a fine, finished appearance in use.

To the accomplishment of these objects and such others as may hereinafter appear, as will readily be understood by those skilled in the art, the invention comprises the features and combinations of parts, including a novel method of binding'tabbed wear pads, set forth in the following description and then particularly pointed out in the appended claims. I

The preferred form of the inventlon 1s 11- lustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure l is a bottom view of the seat pad before being placed in use,

Fig. 2 is a view, in perspective, of the seat pad applied to a chair seat, the chair being skeletonized and tipped back to illustrate the pad securing member located beneath the chair seat, a modified form of the pad securing member being shown by dotted lines, and

Fig. 3 is a view, in perspective, of a modi-' fied form of binding for seat pads to be 45 provided with an inner cushion and having Seiial No. 50,954.

vided with a plurality of elongated tabs attached at one end to the edge of the cover material. For chairs with a back that is connected to the seat three such tabs will be required. The illustration shows this most usual construction, namely, a single front tab 6 and two, spaced rear tabs 7 and 8. These tabs are long enough to fold down v over the edge of the chair seat and extend inwardly under, and partially across, the

bottom of the chair seat. Each tab is firmly secured to the margin of the covering member at one end and the free end is pro vided with an eyelet that may conveniently be a metal grommet 9 set in an opening punched through the material.

The pad securing member, that serves to connect the inwardly'turned tab ends, is preferably formed of a yielding material, but any connection, in one aspect of the invention, that will function to hold the wear pad on the chair seat maybe used. An elastic securing means is advantageous in that it holds the pad yieldingly, permitting it' t6 move with the body of the user and thus aid in preventing undue wear of the clothing.

The securing member may conveniently be formed from a single piece of elastic cord 10 that is folded upon itself at intervals to form the end loops 11 and 12 and the intermediate loops 13 and 14 shown by the full line embodiment illustrated in Fig.2. The loops may be fastened at their cord ends in any suitable manner as by the metallic clamps 15. Each loop is preferably provided at its free end with a hook 16 for engaging a tab eyelet. Any other suitable means may be used for attaching the loops to the tabs but the hooks provide a simple and quickly attachable or detachable connection that can be manipulated by touch, thus obviating any necessity of turning the chair over when securing the pad in place.

In the form of tab securing means shownin full lines in Fig. 2 the two'end loops 11 and 12 are provided for the type of oflice chair that has a central post, it being understood that the two looped cords are brought forward, for engagement of both with the the eyelets 9. The seat pad is thus held in contact with the chair seat but yet movably thereon.

An important feature of the invention resides in the finish of the seat pad. By practicing the method of this invention in sewing a binding tape to the edge of the pad a continuous tape-bound margin is, provided that is unmarred by any showing of a joint. This greatly enhances the appearance of the article.

For a singlelayer pad, or a cushioned pad, formed of material that is not to be washed, the binding tape is applied 'in the following manner, referring more particularly to Fig. 1. The two tabs 6 and 7 are both taped on both longitudinal edges, as shown by the tape 20, before assembl with the seat cover ing 5. At this time t e tab 8 has tape 21 applied to only one longitudinal edge, namely, its edge that is away from the tab 7.

-In binding the edge of the seat covering 5,-

.and at the same" operation securing the tabs to its periphery, the starting end of the binding tape will be somewhere at, the unbound side of the tab 8, say at the point indicated by the dotted line 22. The stitching then proceeds, to the left in Fig. 1 about the edge of the cover 5, securing the tabs 8, 6 and 7v thereto in order, passes the point 22 .and on again reaching the tab 8 turns from the cover edge, runs along the unbound edge of the tab 8 and finishes at 23. By this method of binding all the tabs are bound alike in the completed article and the coveredge. binding is continuous, the start .and finish not being discernible.

When washable material is used for a cushion pad the two layers 24 and 25 of the seat covering (Fig. 3) are provided with a mouth 26 preferably, although not necessarily, between the two rear tabs 7 and 8 so that the cushion may be removed. In bind ing this form of the seat pad the same method of applying the tape is used but modified to provide finished edges for the mouth '26. In this instance the starting ppint of the tape will be farther removed cm the tab 8, say at 27 and will be stitched.

of the layer 24 only across about the edge ence about both layers until the mouth, t

- the mouth is again reached, and thence about --.the edge of the layer 25 only across the mouth,fi nishing at 23-on the unbound edge iteaeeo mouth after insertion of the cushion.

The nature and scope of the invention having been indicated and the preferred embodiments of the invention having been specifically described, as well as the method of finishing, what isclaimed as new, is 1. A detachable wear pad for chair seats, and the like, comprising a seat covering member provided with a plurality of tabs at its periphery each having an eyelet in its free end and adapted to fold over the edge of the seat and extend inwardly under its bottom, and an under seat elastic cord having a plurality of spaced tab engaging loops eoglsal in number, at least, to the number of ta s and each loop having a hook to detachably engage'an eyelet when said loops are stretched, whereby said cord is tensioned when in pad securing position.

2. In combination with a detachable wear pad for chair seats and the like, comprising a seat covering member provided with a plurality of tabs at its periphery adapted to .fold over the edge of the seat and extend inwardly under. its bottom, an elastic cord provided with a plurality of spaced loops which may be stretched toward said-inwardly turned tab ends when the looped cord is placed in the space within saidt'ab ends, and detachable means for fastening at one end to the seat covering member, said seatcovering binding tape having one -end on said peripheral edge of the seat cover at the side of said one tab opposite its separately bound edge and its other end on said tab and completing the binding thereof.

4. wear pad for chair seats and the like comprising a seat covering comprising two superposed layers adapted to hold a removable cushion between them and having a plurality of elongated tabs at its peripheral edge, all but one of said tabs being separately bound with tape at both longitudinal edges but said one tab being separately bound at one edge only, aibiriding tape about said peripheral edge of the seat cover through which said tabs are secured at one end to the seat covering member, said seat covering binding tape having one end on said peripheral edge of the seat cover at the side of said one tab opposite-its separately bound edge, exten g thence toward and substantially to said tab about the edge are marginally secured together exce t of one of said seat coverin layers only, where said seat covering binding tape'bin s 10 thence about the edges of bot seat covermg the edges of said layers separately thus layers to a point slightly beyond said startforming a tape-bound mouth for insertion ing' point, and thence to said tab about the and removal of said cushion, and means for edge of the other seat coverin layer onliy holding said mouth closed after insertion and ending on said tab to comp ete its bin of the cushion.

ing, whereby said two seat covering layers CLIFTON O. CARVER. 

